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THE PORTRAITS OF 
ISAIAH THOMAS 


WITH A GENEALOGY 
OF HIS DESCENDANTS 


BY 

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THE PORTRAITS OF 
ISAIAH THOMAS 

WITH A GENEALOGY 
OF HIS DESCENDANTS 

BY 

CHARLES LEMUEL NICHOLS 


Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Socibtt 
FOR October, 1920. 


WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A. 
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY 
1921 




The Davis Press 
Worcester, Massachusetts 




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THE PORTRAITS OF ISAIAH THOMAS 

with some notes upon his descendants 

BY CHARLES LEMUEL NICHOLS 


NE hundred years ago, on the 24th of August (1820) , 
the first library building of the American Antiqua- 
rian Society was dedicated. On that occasion a formal 
address was delivered by Isaac Goodwin and during that 
year the first volume of our Transactions was published 
under thetitle/^Archaeologia Americana.’^ It seems not 
inappropriate that we should recall, at this meeting, 
Isaiah Thomas, by whose gift that building was erected, 
by whose foresight the books, then placed in it, were 
gathered together and by whose interest and active 
exertions the Society itself had been originated eight 
years before. In the eulogy delivered by the Hon. Levi 
Lincoln, in 1831, soon after the decease of Mr. Thomas, 
we have the only word picture of our founder by a 
contemporary. While without question a faithful 
description and an interesting statement, this pen por- 
trait leaves much to be desired by those who would see 
the features and realize the form of one of the famous 
figures of the past. 

A recent editorial in the daily press^ claims that the 
present progress in the use of the pictograph seems 
certain to destroy all need of written language. What- 
ever may be in store for us in the future, because of the 
remarkable development of the film and the grapho- 
phone, singly and combined, it is a curious fact 
that, after more than sixty centuries in perfecting the 
alphabet, we should seem to be returning to the 
ideographic form of recording our thoughts in the 
abstract and our impressions and pictures of people in 
particular for the benefit of posterity. This statement 


^New York Times, August 15, 1920. 


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does not ignore the fact that the arts of painting and 
sculpture, from the dawn of history, have preserved to 
us most of the knowledge of those early times which we 
possess. It is my desire merely to indicate a probable 
development, along these different lines, of these new 
processes in the future. 

In the early part of the 18th century, oil painting and 
crayon were the favorite forms of preserving the features 
and figures of their contemporaries, together with that 
art, which was named in derision, because of his pleas for 
economy, after the minister of finance of Louis XV, 
Etienne de Silhouette. The silhouette picture was not 
only cheap and popular, but the method was practiced by 
artists whose reputations were the best of their time as 
well as by many peripatetic wielders of brush and scissors. 
A high grade of artistic skill was often manifested in these 
and it would surprise those whose attention has not 
been called to the subject, to learn the size and number 
of collections accumulated at the present day, by 
persons interested in preserving these ‘^shadow pictures’^ 
as they were called by Benjamin Franklin. It was my 
hope to discover an outline portrait of Isaiah Thomas 
cut by William Brown, by George B. King, or by 
William M. S. Doyle, the latter a Boston miniature and 
silhouette artist of merit, but none has yet come to my 
attention. 

In June, 1818, Thomas wrote in his diary, Engaged 
Mr. (Ethan Allen) Greenwood to take my likeness. 
I sat at his request five weeks since, when he finished 
one for himself. I sat again today for him to make 
one for myself. I sat six times for this last picture. 
That the result of Greenwood^s work was satisfactory 
to his sitter is proved by the fact that ten years later in 
1828, Thomas commissioned Henry Harding of Boston 
to make, for him, two copies of this portrait. One of these 
was presented to Alleghany College of Pennsylvania, 
from which he had received the degree of LL. D. July 2, 
1818, the other being reserved for ^ Wother purpose,^ ^ as 
he wrote in his diary. Knowing the intense interest of 



Painted by Greenwood 








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Thomas in free-masonry and knowing that the Morning 
Star Lodge of Worcester, which was founded by him, has 
a portrait of him, like the Greenwood, with the addition 
of a masonic jewel, it is a fair inference that the other 
purpose was a gift to that lodge. On the frame of this 
portrait is inscribed, ‘1769— Isaiah Thomas,— 1831 
Master of Morning Star Lodge, 1793-4-7-9-1801-2. 
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mass. 1803-4-5-9. 
Grand High Priest of the Grand R. A. Chapter of Mass. 
1806-7-8.^’ This masonic portrait was copied in 1875 by 
Charles K. Hardy of this city, and presented by the 
Worcester lodge to the Royal Arch Chapter of Boston 
of which Thomas was a member and high official, as the 
inscription, just read, indicates. There are two other 
portraits which are evidently copies of the Greenwood, 
one of which hangs on the walls of Leicester Academy, 
an institution in which Thomas was warmly interested 
and to which he sent at least two of his grandsons for 
education. This portrait has the inscription, — “Isaiah 
Thomas — Donor, 1831,^^ but it has not been possible to 
discover from the records of the Academy the occasion 
of this gift, nor can we be certain by whom it was copied 
although it resembles very closely the other Harding 
pictures. The other portrait hangs in the masonic 
lodge room at Millbury and was presented to that lodge 
in 1906 by the Misses Randall, now of Boston, who 
lived in that town until after the death of their father, 
Abraham G. Randall. In the letter of gift, it is stated 
that the painting was an heirloom, having been given 
by the hand of their great grandfather, Isaiah Thomas, 
to their mother, Elizabeth C. (Simmons) Randall. 
This portrait, while unsigned and in poor condition 
was copied from the Greenwood by Edward Dalton 
Marchant who was born at Edgartown in 1806, and is 
the only American painter of that name in this period. 
As he was only 20 at this time, the portrait must be 
placed among his early work, it having been done before 
1828. The proof of this statement lies in the following 
facts: a portrait of Thomas was drawn on stone and 


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printed by William Pendleton of Boston. On the left 
side of this plate we find, Marchant, from the painting 
by Greenwood,’^ and on the right, ^^Pendleton^s Litho- 
graphy, Boston. The peculiarities in the face of the 
portrait, repeated in the print, prove that it was copied 
from that painting and that therefore the artist of the 
painting was Marchant. Our associate, Charles H. 
Taylor, Jr., who has studied this print, and is an 
authority on these lithographs, states that Mr. Scott 
one of Pendleton^s workmen, told him that the date of 
this print was 1828. As Pendleton Bros., who claim to 
have introduced lithography into America, moved to 
Philadelphia in 1829, it is probable that this date is cor- 
rect. As it is also a fact that Thomas owned the 
painting at this time, it is probable that he intended 
this print as a frontispiece for his ‘‘History of Printing,^’ 
which had had none. This print is found in some of the 
copies of that book which had not been bound when 
published in 18 lO. An additional argument, that the 
print was ordered by Thomas lies in the fact that 
copies of it finished in color are in the possession of 
several of his descendants of today, through the 
bequests of a previous generation, no other copies in 
color being known. 

Other portraits of Thomas were made by W. M. S. 
Doyle, Henry Williams, and Sarah Goodrich. W. M. S 
Doyle, previously referred to as a silhouette artist, made 
a miniature before 1811. This was engraved by 
William R. Jones of Philadelphia, for the November 
number of the “Freemason's Magazine,” 1811, published 
in that city. It accompanied an address by Thomas 
on the occasion of his resignation as Grand Master of 
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. The plate of this 
engraving is in the possession of this Society and the 
picture is recorded in Stauffer's list of American 
Engravers as number 1526. 

The portrait by Williams, was engraved on copper, 
in stipple, by John R. Smith for the “Polyanthos,” a 
magazine published in Boston by Joseph T. Bucking- 



Painted by Marchant after Greenwood 




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ham. The portraits for the larger series of this magazine 
which began in 1812, were all done by J. R. Smith or 
David Edwin. This appeared in the number for 
August, 1814 and accompanied a short sketch of Mr. 
Thomas. It is listed in Stauffer as number 2932. 

The more recent picture by Henry Billings was 
engraved on steel by Stephen A. Schoff and was used in 
connection with an account of the life and work of 
Thomas, in Buckingham’s ^‘Reminiscences,” published 
in Boston, in the year 1852. It is an excellent likeness 
and must have been very satisfactory to his lifelong 
friend, Mr. Buckingham. 

Sarah Goodrich, or Goodridge, as Dunlap records it, 
was born in Templeton in 1788, and died in 1853. The 
picture by her was copied on steel by Henry W. Smith 
and the plate used in the second edition of Thomas’s 
“History of Printing,” published in 1875. These three 
plates, also, are in the possession of the Society. 

In the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the 
attractions for the entertainment of people was found 
in museums containing paintings of eminent men, 
sculptures, wax figures and objects of local, or national 
interest and importance. One of the earliest of these, 
the Columbian Museum, was opened in 1795, in Boston, 
by Daniel Bowen and Edward Savage. In 1807, W. M. 
S. Doyle became one of the proprietors and continued 
his interest until the collection was sold, in 1825, to the 
New England Museum, of which E. A. Greenwood was 
the proprietor. Greenwood had opened a small room, 
in 1812, called the New York Museum, which, in 1818, 
was named the New England Museum and was 
enlarged from time to time by the purchase of three, or 
four other museums in addition to the Columbian, 
acquired in 1825. This undertaking proved too expen- 
sive and it was sold, in 1834, to Moses Kimball, by the 
assignees of Greenwood, who had failed and retired to 
Hubbardston. In 1841, Kimball changed its name to 
the Boston Museum and, for the first time, combined 
the performance of theatrical plays with the museum 


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attractions. This action proved so successful that, in 
1846, he erected the building in which was housed for 
many years the famous Boston Museum, which is so 
familiar to us of the older generation. 

These facts are given in such detail because Dunlap 
states that many of the portraits in the Columbian 
Museum were painted by Greenwood and Savage, its 
proprietors. It is therefore certain, that the Greenwood 
painting, noted in the Thomas diary in 1818, was 
placed in that museum and indeed hung in the Boston 
Museum until quite recent years. It is not known 
today where that or any of the paintings are, as Kimball 
sold some of them, from time to time, and when the 
last reconstruction of the Museum took place, the 
remainder were sent away. While we have been able 
to trace, thus far, the original Greenwood, we know 
nothing of the portraits of Thomas by Henry Williams, 
and Henry Billings, if indeed they were more than 
sketches for the engravings made from them. 

In addition to these pictures and standing in this hall 
is a marble bust of Mr. Thomas, made in 1859 by 
Benjamin H. Kinney of Worcester, which reflects very 
happily the expression of the Greenwood painting. 
An etched plate of Isaiah Thomas, with very ornate 
border, made for the Society of Iconophiles, hangs on our 
walls, but the miniature of him in the bookplate of this 
Society, made by John A. J. Wilcox, better preserves the 
accepted likeness by Greenwood. These portraits and 
prints, largely copied from the Greenwood painting 
were more or less for the public eye, but there were 
others, intended for the intimate family life, which 
should be included in this summary. Isaiah Thomas 
was married three times, but had children by his first 
wife only, the names of the living children being, Mary 
Anne and Isaiah, Junior. The daughter by her second 
and third husbands had four children, who were living in 
1819. The son, by his wife, Mary Weld had twelve and 
from these have come the many branches of this 
Thomas family of the present day. Appended to this 


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paper is a genealogy of Isaiah Thomas, Senior, prepared 
in part from his Ms. notes, deposited in this library in 

1819, and brought to date by correspondence with those 
of the family within our reach. While there are more 
than seventy in the present generation, it will be 
interesting to state here that, of the direct descendants, 
there are at this date but four bearing the nameThomas : 
William Thomas, of San Francisco, a member of this 
Society and his son, Benjamin Franklin Thomas, and 
William R. Thomas of New York and his son, William 
Trumbull Thomas. Among many bequests in the will 
of Isaiah Thomas, written in the year 1820, we find the 
following of interest in connection with the present 
subject: 

^'I bequeath, to my grandson, Isaiah Thomas the 
large crayon picture of myself together with the small 
crayon picture of his deceased grandmother. 

to my granddaughter, Augusta, the daughter of my 
son, I give a miniature picture of myself, which picture 
is set in a gold frame and has plaited hair in the back of 
it. 

to my granddaughter, Caroline, I give another 
miniature of myself (a crayon). 

to my granddaughter, Hannah, I give the crayon 
picture of her aunt. Miss Hannah Weld, together with a 
profile framed and a print of myself. 

to my grandson, Isaiah Thomas Simmons, I give 
another crayon picture of myself, a small one but 
drawn on a larger scale than that given to Caroline. 

to my granddaughter, Elizabeth C. Simmons, I give a 
miniature picture of myself, set in gold, which is now in 
a small oval wooden box, in the sideboard standing in 
the parlor. In the same box is the other miniature 
picture bequeathed to my granddaughter, Caroline.” 
(This bequest appears in the codicil added in 1830.) 

and finally ^ To the American Antiquarian Society, the 
recent protrait of myself by Greenwood.” (written in 

1820. ) 

To trace these bequests among the members of the 


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present generation has been a very interesting problem 
and my efforts have everywhere met with keen interest 
and active assistance. A most interesting miniature, 
because it represents Thomas as a young man, is in 
th^ possession of Mrs. George R. Minot and came from 
her mother with a miniature of Benjamin F. Thomas, 
her grandfather. It is set in gold and has the old style 
of loop at the top showing it to be contemporary work. 

A miniature on ivory has just been found by Mrs. 
George R. Minot, among the papers of Miss Mary 
Thomas, recently deceased. There has been a tradi- 
tion for many years that this was painted by Sarah 
Goodrich and this fact is proved by its resemblance 
to the engraving by Henry W. Smith in the second 
edition of Thomas^ ^‘History of Printing. 

The two miniatures, described in the will as ^^in a small 
wooden box’^ and given to Caroline and Elizabeth, 
are in the hands of two members of the Thomas family. 
The one set in gold, left to Elizabeth, belongs to Isaac 
Rand Thomas, a member of this Society who traces his 
descent from Elias Thomas, an uncle of Isaiah. This, 
also is in the original setting. 

The unmounted miniature was acquired by William 
Sloane of New York, who after having it suitably 
mounted has given it to his daughter Margaret Sloane, 
she being descended from Frances, wife of William A. 
Crocker of Taunton. Both of these miniatures came 
from the Misses Randall, who are granddaughters of 
Mary Thomas Simmons. The miniature, set in gold 
with hair in the back, although traced in several 
directions, has not yet been found. 

In the preparation of such a paper, one is certain to 
come across interesting and important information in 
unexpected places, and it is just this element of dis- 
covery which makes pioneer work often seem like 
romance. One such example has been cited in the dis- 
covery, from the lithographic print, that Marchant 
painted the Millbury portrait. The miniatures be- 
longing to Mr. Sloane and to Mr. Thomas are not 



Miniature, Artist Unknown 


Miniature by Doyle 


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signed but must have been painted by the same artist. 
They resemble also so closely the print which appeared 
in the “Freemason’s Magazine” of 1811 that there can 
be no question that W. M. S. Doyle, whose name 
appears on that print as the painter, is the artist who 
made these two miniatures. The inscription on this 
print reads “Isaiah Thomas, P. G. Master of Massachu- 
setts and Author of History of Printing,” and thus 
proves the miniature to have been painted before 1811, 
and we know that Doyle was active in Boston in his 
profession from 1807. 

The crayon profile framed, given by will to Hannah, 
first wife of Samuel L. Crocker, descended to Leonard 
C. Couch of Taunton. This portrait is now presented 
by Mr. Couch and myself to this Society. On the back 
of the frame is written in ink in the handwriting of 
Thomas, ^Hsaiah Thomas, 1804, aged 55 when this 
picture was taken.” There is nothing to indicate the 
artist of this pastel, but through the energy of our 
librarian, Mr. Brigham, it was examined by Frank W. 
Bailey and Lawrence Park, both of whom feel sure that 
it is the work of James Sharpies. In the edition of 
Dunlap’s “History of the Arts of Design in the United 
States, ’’published by Goodspeed and Bailey, it is stated 
that Sharpies painted large numbers of distinguished 
people, travelling throughout the United States for that 
purpose. These portraits were finished in about two 
hours and when in profile were strikingly like the sub- 
ject, but when in full face never so good. The cost in 
profile was $15.00, and most of these are today very 
valuable, but those in full face have not the same value 
although the original cost was $20.00. 

In the possession of Mr. Francis H. Bigelow of Cam- 
bridge are two pastels, one of Thomas and the other of 
his wife, Mary. The size of the Thomas head is a 
little larger than ours but the resemblance of these 
profiles to ours proves them to have been made by the 
same artist. A third pastel, formerly belonging to Mr. 
Bigelow, is of Mary, wife of Dr. Simmons and has on 


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the back of its frame the date 1804. This would con- 
firm the belief that these, also, were made by Sharpies. 

These constitute all the known portraits and prints of 
Isaiah Thomas which have come to my notice, and 
these facts regarding them have been gathered together 
in order to preserve in our records, before it is too late, 
all the definite knowledge of the likenesses of our 
founder that can be obtained. 

In the manuscript will, which is in our archives, duly 
signed by Mr. Thomas and later probated, he wrote: 

As I think it the duty of every man, who is a mem- 
ber of any institution established for the public good, 
to contribute some thing in time and attention or 
property during his life time or otherwise by legacy 
for the promotion of its objects and as there are 
several such institutions of which I have received 
the honor of membership and for which I have done 
but little, I do will and bequeath etc, etc. ” 

Then follow bequests to eighteen masonic, literary 
and historical societies as an earnest of his convictions 
thus expressed. 

It is needless to state that, of all these bequests, the 
largest was to the child of his heart and brain, our own 
Society. Let me quote his opinion of the Society 
recorded in the same document : 

^^The American Antiquarian Society is, in some 
respects, different from all other societies established 
in the United States. Membership is restricted to no 
state, or party. There are no members merely 
honorary, but all have an equal interest and concern 
in its affairs and the objects of this institution, what- 
ever part of the United States they may reside in. It 
is truly a national institution. It has no local views 
nor private concerns. Its objects (to collect and 
preserve) embrace all time, past, present and future. 
* * * The benefits resulting from the American 

Anitquarian Society will be increased by time and will 
be chiefly received by a remote posterity.’’ 

These quotations from the last will and testament 



Miniature by Goodrich 


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of Isaiah Thomas, like the recorded acts of his long 
life, prove the existence of those qualities of intellect, 
benevolence and vision which are so perfectlyportrayed 
in the Greenwood painting, and so well shadowed 
forth in the profile presented to the society this day. 


List of Portraits, Prints and Other Representations 
OF Isaiah Thomas, Senior 

1. Painting by E. A. Greenwood, in 1818, for New England 
Museum and later the Boston Museum. Present 
location unknown. 

2. Painting by E. A. Greenwood, in 1818, for Thomas. 
Gift to American Antiquarian Society. 

3. Painting, copied by Henry Harding of Boston by order 
of Thomas, in 1828, for Alleghany College of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

4. Painting, copied by Henry Harding of Boston by order 
of Thomas in 1828. Probably the one now in Morning 
Star Lodge of Worcester. 

5. Painting, copied by E. D. Marchant (by order of 
Thomas?). Given by Thomas to his granddaughter 
Elizabeth C. Simmons and given by her daughters, the 
Misses Randall, to the Olive Branch Lodge of Millbury. 

6. Painting, copied from Greenwood (by whom unknown) 
given by Thomas to the Leicester Academy. 

7. Portrait by Henry Williams, a Boston painter who 
lived from 1787 to 1830. This was engraved by J. R. 
Smith. See below. Present location unknown. 

8. Portrait by Henry Billings, location unknown. Copied 
on steel by S. A. Schoff. See below. 

9. Portrait by W. M. S. Doyle of Boston, 1769 to 1828. 
He painted a miniature of Thomas, unsigned. This 
was given, unframed, by Thomas to his granddaughter 
Caroline and is now owned by Miss Margaret D. 
Sloane, great granddaughter of Frances (Thomas) 
Crocker. This was engraved by W. R. Jones by whose 
plate Doyle is acknowledged as the painter. See 
below. 

10. Miniature of Thomas, set in gold, given, by codicil of 
1830, to Elizabeth C. Simmons, from whose daughters 
it was obtained by Isaac Rand Thomas, a member of 


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this Society and descended from Elias Thomas, an 
uncle of Isaiah. This must have been painted by the 
same artist as No. 9. 

11. Miniature of Thomas, set in gold, in possession of Mrs. 
George R. Minot. Artist unknown. Represents 
Thomas as a young man. 

12. Miniature of Thomas, in possession of Mrs. George R. 
Minot unsigned but undoubtedly by Sarah Goodrich. 
See No. 18. 

13. Pastel by Sharpies? Bequeathed to Hannah, first wife 
of Samuel L. Crocker. Owned by Leonard C. Couch, 
her grandson. Given to American Antiquarian Society. 

14. Pastel, now owned by Mr. Francis H. Bigelow, who 
received it from the Misses Randall, by same artist as 
No. 13. 

15. Print engraved on copper in stipple by W. R. Jones of 
Philadelphia, for the ^‘Freemason’s Magazine,” Nov., 
1811. From the Sloane miniature. Plate in American 
Antiquarian Society. 

16. Print engraved on copper in stipple by J. R. Smith, for 
the “Polyanthos.” August, 1814. From picture by 
Henry Williams. Plate in American Antiquarian 
Society. 

17. Print engraved on steel by S. A. Schoff, from picture by 
Henry Billings for Buckingham’s “Reminiscences,” 
published in 1852. Plate in American Antiquarian 
Society. 

18. Print engraved on steel by H. W. Smith, from picture 
by Sarah Goodrich, for second edition of “History of 
Printing.” Plate in American Antiquarian Society. 

19. Lithograph by Pendleton Brothers of Boston, from 
Marchant painting. 

20. Etching for Society of Iconophiles. 

21. Etclung by J. A. J. Wilcox, for the American Anti- 
quarian Society bookplate. 

22. Marble Bust by B. H. Kinney in 1859, in American 
Antiquarian Society. 


THE DIRECT DESCENDANTS 
OF ISAIAH THOMAS OF WORCESTER 


1. EVAN^ and Jane Thomas of Wales, came to Boston in 

1640 with four children, one being named GEORGE. 
In Boston, they had two more children: 

i. Jane, b. May 16, 1641; m. Nov. 14, 1657, John Jackson. 

ii. Dorcas, b. Jan. 25, 1643; d. Feb. 28, 1643. 

Jane, wife of Evan, died Jan. 12, 1658 and Evan 
married, as second wife, the widow of Philip Kirkland 
in 1659 or 1660. The Boston Vital Records state that 
Seargant Evan Thomas died Aug. 25, 1661. Alice, the 
second wife, at first with some difficulty but later with 
profit, continued the business of Evan and she died in 
1697. The records state that Evan had many children 
and grandchildren, one of the latter being the wife of 
the Rev. Joseph Belcher. 

2. GEORG E^ THOMAS, one of the children born in Wales, 

m. Rebecca Maverick, b. Jan. 1, 1660 in Chelsea. 
They had eight children. 

3. i. PETER, b. Feb. 6, 1681-2. 

ii. Martha, b. Sept. 22, 1683. 

iii. George, b. March 16, 1684-5; m. June 16, 1709, Susanna 

Gutridge. 

iv. Rebecca, b. March 25, 1687. 

V. Ann, b. April 30, 1688. 

vi. Dorothy, b. Dec. 20, 1690. 

vii. Elizabeth, b. July 28, 1693. 

viii. Maverick, b. Feb. 24, 1694-5; m. Joanna and had four 

children: 1. James, b. Oct. 5, 1720. 2. English, b. 
Jan. 4, 1722. 3. Love, b. Mar. 19, 1725. 4. George, 
b. July 9, 1729. 


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3. PETER3 THOMAS, b. Feb. 6, 1681-2. m. twice. 1st., 

Nov. 2, 1704, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. George 
Burroughs. They had six children, all born in Boston. 
2nd., March 1, 1719, Mary Roby, by whom he had 
five children, two of whom died in infancy. 

Children by first wife. 

i. George, b. July 20, 1705. 

ii. Peter, b. ; m. Mar. 7, 1728, Katharine Webber and 

had two daughters. 

iii. Elias, b. June 4, 1710; m. July 22, 1735, Hannah Mac- 

Millon and had several children. 

iv. Elizabeth, b. Aug, 18, 1714. d. before 1721. 

4. V. MOSES, b. Feb. 25, 1715. 

vi. Mary, b. ; m. twice, 1st; March 12, 1732, Thomas 

Newman and had two children. 2nd: George Gibbs. 

Children by second wife. 

vii. Elizabeth, b. May 31, 1721. She died unmarried. 

viii. Mercy, b. Dec. 23, 1724; m. Oct. 20, 1741, George Eustis. 

ix. William, b. ; m. Oct. 20, 1748, Rebecca Bass, 

daughter of Samuel and Christian Bass, born Dec. 27, 
1727. They had a daughter Mary, b. June 9, 1750. She . 
was second wife of 8. ISAIAH. William d. April 19, 1760 
and Rebecca m. June 12, 1769, Zechariah Fowle who d. 
in 1776 and she d. in Worcester, July 17, 1803. 

4. MOSES^ THOMAS and Fidelity Grant were married 

about 1740 and had five children. Moses was born in 
Boston in 1715 and died in North Carolina in 1752. 
Fidelity Grant of Rhode Island was born in 1725 and 
died in Worcester, at the home of her son Isaiah, Jan. 
17, 1798. She married June 12, 1764, Ebenezer 
Blackman of Westcambridge and they had a daughter, 
Mary, who married and lived in Westcambridge. 
Moses and Fidelity had five children, two being born 
at Hempstead, Long Island and brought up there. 

The other three were born in Boston. 

i. Elizabeth, . m. at Hempstead and went to the 

West Indies. 

5. ii. Peter. 

6. iii. Joshua, b. March 3, 1745. 

7. iv. Susanna Amelia, b. 1747. 

8. V. ISAIAH, b. Jan. 19, 1749. 


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5. Petek^ Thomas, lived at Hempstead. He was twice 

married. By his first wife, he had two sons, John and 
Amos. John died at the age of 17 and Amos became a 
sailor. By the second wife, he had one daughter, 
Elizabeth, born Jan. 10, 1785. She was formally 
adopted by her uncle Isaiah and later married, Dec. 9, 
1811, Stephen T. Soper of Boston. She died at 
Braintree, July 12, 1813. Peter also had by second 
wife a son Isaiah, who died in infancy. 

6. Joshua^ Thomas, born March 3, 1745 in Boston, married 

twice. 1st. Mary Twing of Brighton, Mass, and 
had by her seven children. She died in Lancaster, 
May 27, 1808. 2nd. Mary Armstrong, daughter of 
John Armstrong of Boston. Joshua lived at Arhngton 
for many years and finally went to Lancaster where he 
died, Feb. 4, 1831. 

7. Susanna^ Amelia Thomas, b. 1747, married four times, 

the last husband being Capt. Hugh McCullough of 
Philadelphia. She, again a widow, died on Feb. 20, 
1815. 

8. ISAIAH^ THOMAS, born Jan. 19, 1749, in Boston was 

apprenticed by his mother on June 4, 1756 to Zachariah 
Fowle and brought up as a printer. He Hved in Boston 
until 1775 when, because of his newspaper activities 
in behalf of the Colonies, he moved to Worcester. He 
gave up active work as a printer, in 1802. In 1810 he 
pubhshed a “History of Printing^’ and founded the 
American Antiquarian Society in 1812. He received the 
honorary degree of A. M. in 1814, from Dartmouth 
College, and that of LL.D. in 1818, from Alleghany 
College of Pennsylvania. He died, April 4, 1831, in 
Worcester. 

He married three times: 1st. Dec. 25, 1769, in 
Charleston, S. C., Mary, daughter of Joseph and Anne 
Dill, of Bermuda, and had three children. He was 
divorced from her in 1777 by decree of the Supreme 


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Court of Mass. 2nd. May 26, 1779, in Boston, 
Mary Fowle, who died in Worcester, Nov. 16, 1818. 
She was daughter of William and Rebecca (Bass) 
Thomas and was born June 9, 1750. She married. 
May 11, 1769, Isaac Fowle and had two daughters, 
Rebecca T., b. Feb. 4, 1770., d. Dec. 6, 1773 in 
New York, and Dorothea Whitmarsh, b. Nov. 5, 1771, 
d. Sept. 10, 1772. Isaac Fowle died in the Continental 
Army in 1777. 3rd. Aug. 10, 1819, in Boston, 
Rebecca Armstrong, daughter of John and Christian 
Armstrong of Boston. 

Her mother, Christian, was daughter of Samuel and 
Christian Bass whose other daughter, Rebecca, wife of 
William Thomas, had a daughter Mary, who was the 
second wife of Isaiah and they were thus cousins. She, 
born in 1757, died Oct. 21, 1828, in Roxbury. 

Children by first wife, 
i. Son, stillborn, Sept. 1770. 

9. ii. Mary Anne, b. March 27, 1772. 

10. iii. ISAIAH, JUN. b. Sept. 5, 1773. 

9. MARY ANNE® THOMAS, daughter of Isaiah and Mary 
(Dill) Thomas, b. March 27, 1772, in Boston. 

While living with her uncle, Joshua, she was admitted 
to the Precinct Church in Arhngton (Menotomy), and 
baptized Aug. 21, 1791. After her first marriage, she 
was dismissed to the first church in Springfield, where 
she went with her husband. She was married three 
times. 1st. In Arlington, at her uncle^s on Jan. 16, 
1792, to James R. Hutchins of Windsor, Vt. He was a 
printer and published the ‘‘Federal Spy’^ in Springfield 
from 1793-96, when he sold it. In 1795 he printed 
books in Worcester but after that time his career is not 
known. 2nd. On Oct. 1, 1797, to Samuel Mather, 
who was b. March 19, 1773 in Whately, Mass., 3rd. 
In Worcester, May 7, 1805, to Dr. Levi Simmons. 
They hved in St. Albans, Vt., where her children by 
this marriage were born, and later in Burlington. She 
was divorced from both second and third husbands by 
decree of the Supreme Court of Vt. 


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Child by second marriage. 

i. Valeria, b. Nov. 24, 1801. She married Samuel Williams 

of Burlington, Vt., in April, 1818. 

Children by third marriage. 

ii. Isaiah, b. July 24, 1806; d. March 7, 1808. 

11. iii. Mary Thomas, b. Sept. 17, 1808. 

iv. Isaiah Thomas, b. April 20, 1810. He was educated as a 
printer by his grandfather, and it is said that he worked 
at his trade in Little Falls, N. Y. 

12. V. Elizabeth Cornelia, b. Feb. 12, 1813. 

The Mss. records prepared by Isaiah Thomas, 
senior, and placed by him in the library of the American 
Antiquarian Society state that another child by one of 
her marriageswas named Babbet (Barbara) but no other 
trace of such child has been found in record or tradition. 


10. ISAIAH® THOMAS, Jun., born. Sept. 5, 1773 in Boston. 
He Hved in Worcester from 1779 to 1810, when he moved 
to Boston where he died, June 25, 1819, in consequence 
of an accident. He married, in May 1797, Mary, 
daughter of Edward Weld of Boston formerly of 
Marblehead. He was educated as a printer by his 
father and bought out his business in 1802. He moved 
this business to Boston in 1810 where he continued 
until his death. His wife died, April 26, 1825, in Boston. 

They had twelve children, six daughters and then 
six sons. 

i. Daughter, stillborn, Feb. 6, 1798. 

ii. Mary Rebecca, b. July 6, 1799; d. June 17, 1859 in Bos- 

ton. She m. May 23, 1821, Hon. Pliny Merrick. He 
was b. Aug. 2, 1794 and d. Feb. 1, 1867 in Boston. They 
had no children. 

13. iii. Frances Church, b. Aug. 12, 1800. 

iv. Augusta Weld, b. Aug. 1, 1801; d. Aug. 19, 1822 in 
Taunton . She never married . 

14. V. Caroline, b. Sept. 26, 1802. 

16. vi. Hannah Weld, b. Oct. 25, 1803. 

vii. Isaiah, b. Dec. 11, 1804; d. Oct. 4, 1805 in Worcester. 

16. viii. ISAIAH, b. Nov. 29, 1805. 


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17. ix. William, b. April 11, 1808. 

X. Edward Weld, b. Feb. 15, 1810; d. Oct. 4, 1810 in Wor- 
cester. 

xi. Edward Isaiah, b. Nov. 11, 1811, in Boston; m. Harriet, 
daughter of Bishop Brownell of Hartford and d. on his 
wedding journey at Saratoga. 

18. xii. Benjamin Franklin, b. Jan. 25, 1813. 

The last two were born in Boston the others in Worcester. 


11. Mary^ Simmons, b. Sept. 17, 1808 in St. Albans; d. Nov. 
21-1873 in New Orleans. She married twice: 1st. 
A. Deming of Montpelier, Vt., The diary of Isaiah 
Thomas (Sept. 1, 1826) reads ^‘aged 18, and lately 
married.” 2nd. Col. Albert Gallatin Tarleton 
of Benton, Ala. They had six children. He was a 
confederate soldier, although of northern sympathies, 
and was killed with his four sons in the same year. She 
went to New Orleans, lived with her daughter and died 
there of yellow fever in 1873. 

Children of second marriage: 

i. James. 

ii. Thomas. 

iii. Moses. 

iv. John. 

These sons were killed during the Civil War the same year 
as their father. 

V. Jane, who married Mr. Nelson of Montreal, 
vi. Cornelia Ferris, b. July 29, 1841 in Vermont; m. 
Francis McKeough. They lived in New Orleans and 
had a son, John, who died at the age of four. She died, a 
widow, October 12, 1911, in New Orleans. 


12. Elizabeth^ Cornelia Simmons, b. Feb. 12, 1813 in 
St. Albans; d. July 8, 1891 in Boston. She married, 
Nov. 23, 1831, Abraham Garland Randall and lived 
in Millbury, Mass. He was born Jan. 19, 1804 in 
Manchester, Mass., and died in 1878. He entered Yale 
in 1822, but transferred his studies to Harvard, where 
his father. Rev. Abraham Randall graduated in 1798. 
He continued with the Class of 1826. He was admitted 
to the Worcester County bar in 1831 and practiced law in 


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Millbury until 1860 when he moved his office to Wor- 
cester. He was, in 1849, postmaster of Millbury. 
Children : 

i. Clara Elizabeth b. Dec. 7, 1838, now living in Boston. 

ii. Mary Thomas, b. May 9, 1845, now living in Boston. 

13. Frances^ Church Thomas, b. in Worcester, Aug. 12, 
1800; d. in Staten Island, Apr. 23, 1868. She married, 
Nov. 10, 1824, William Allen Crocker of Taunton. 
He was b. in Taunton, March 14, 1801; d. in New 
York, May 13, 1871. He was in Class of 1822 at 
Brown University, was a Trustee from 1841-1871, and 
lived in Taunton from 1824 to 1863, when he moved to 
Staten Island and in 1868 to New York. He was a 
prominent business man in Taunton, establishing many 
important industries and taking an active part in 
the growth of the city. 

They had eleven children, all born in Taunton. 
Children: 

i. William Augustus, b. Aug. 5, 1825; d. Aug. 18, 1825. 

ii. William Augustus, b. July 4, 1826; d. Feb. 26, 1828. 

iii. Sally Augusta, b. Sept. 29, 1827; d. Feb. 22, 1828. 

19. iv. Frances Thomas, b. Feb. 19, 1829. 

V. Isaiah Thomas, b. Feb. 3, 1830; d. Aug. 10, 1830. 

20. vi. George Augustus, b. Sept. 1, 1831. 

vii. Elizabeth Andrews Baylies, b. Dec. 23, 1834; d. Feb. 9, 
1910. She was unmarried. 

21. viii. William Baylies, b. July 22, 1836. 

ix. Mary Augusta, b. July 26, 1839; d. Mar. 17, 1916. Un- 
married. 

X. Harriet Behling, b. Nov. 26, ; d. March 17, 1846. 

xi. Louisa Marston, b. Sept. 18, 1844. Unmarried, living 
in New York. 


14. Caroline^ Thomas, b. Sept. 26, 1802; d. about 1875. 
She married, as second wife, Hon. Samuel Leonard 
Crocker of Taunton, who was born there Mar. 31, 1804, 
and died in Boston, Feb. 10, 1883. He graduated from 
Brown University in the Class of 1822, was elected a 
Trustee in 1882, to which office he never qualified 
because of his sickness and death the following year. 


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He was a man of large affairs in Taunton, aided in its 
industries and was in the National House of Representa- 
tives from 1853 to 1855. 

They had three children, all born in Taunton. 

22. i. Sally, b. Nov. 24, 1832. 

23. ii. Samuel Leonard, Jr., b. May 25, 1835. 

iii. Ellen, b. about 1843; d. July 1904, in Boston; m. in 1870 
George Gordon Crocker. No children. He was in 
Class of 1855, Harvard. 

15. Hannah^ Weld Thomas, b. Oct. 5, 1803, in Worcester; 

d. Nov. 22, 1827. m. June 14, 1825, as first wife, Hon. 
Samuel Leonard Crocker. 

Child: 

24. Mary Caroline, b. May 1826. 

16. ISAIAH^ THOMAS, b. Nov. 29, 1805. d. lost at sea in 

1862. He, graduate of Harvard, Class of 1825, 
married. May 30, 1831 Mary Ann, eldest daughter of 
Nathaniel Reeder of Virginia. She was born, June 
3, 1808 and died, March 19, 1851. They had nine 
children. He was appointed by President Lincoln 
Consul to Algiers and sailed with three children on 
S. S. Milwaukee in Feb., 1862, for Havre, but the ship 
was never heard from. 

Children: 

i. Mary Louise, b. Feb. 26, 1832, at Cincinnati; d. Feb. 16, 
1833. 

25. ii. Edward Isaiah, b. Nov. 19, 1833, at Cincinnati. 

iii. Elizabeth Andrews, b. Dec. 1, 1835, at Cincinnati; d. 

May 23, 1842. 

iv. Augusta Weld, b. Jan. 13, 1838 at Cincinnati; d. Feb. 18, 

1838. 

V. Mary Caroline, b. Jan. 26, 1839 at Detroit; d. at sea in 
1862. 

vi. Henry Clay, b. May 18, 1841 at Detroit; d. at sea in 1862. 

26. vii. William Reeder, b. July 18, 1843 at Mt. Auburn, Ohio. 

viii. Pliny Merrick, b. Mar. 17, 1847 at Springfield, O; d. 

lost at sea in 1862. 

ix. Alice, b. May 16, 1849 at Springfield; d. April 15, 1852. 


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17. William^ Thomas, b. April 11, 1808 in Worcester; d. in 
Longwood, June, 1872. He married twice, 1st. in 
Aug., 1831, Catherine, daughter of Calvin and Naomi 
Crombie. She died June 16, 1838 in Boston. 2nd. 
Aug. 28, 1839, Cornelia Jane, daughter of Benjamin 
Bangs. 

There were no children by this marriage. 

Children by first wife: 

27. i. Helen, b. Sept. 8, 1832. 

28. ii. Mary Merrick, b. July 31, 1834. 

hi. Catherine Crombie, b. June 15, 1836; d. Nov. 28, 1918; 


18. Benjamin^ Franklin Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1813 in Boston ; 
d. Sept. 27, 1878, in Beverly. He graduated from 
Brown, Class of 1830, and received the degree of LL.D. 
from Brown in 1853, and from Harvard in 1854. He 
was a Trustee of Brown from 1874 to 1878 and its 
Chancellor during that time. He was on the Supreme 
Bench of Mass. 1853-59, and in the National House of 
Representatives, from 1861 to 1863. He m. Mary 
Anne, daughter of John and Agnes Park of Worcester, 
on Oct. 1, 1835. She died Nov. 13, 1885, in Boston. 

Children: 

29. i. Agnes Park, b. July 19, 1837. 

ii. Pliny Merrick, b. Aug. 24, 1839; d. Feb. 28, 1883. 
hi. Mary, b. Jan. 25, 1841; d. July 20, 1920. Never married, 
iv. Benjamin Franklin, Jr., b. Oct. 11, 1842; d. July 21, 
1861. 

V. John Park, b. Feb. 23, 1845; d. Oct. 18, 1870. 
vi. Augusta, b. Feb. 23, 1848; d. July 25, 1848. 

30. vh. William, b. Sept. 5, 1853. 

31. vih. ISAIAH, b. Sept. 24, 1855; d. April 10, 1890. 


19. Frances* Thomas Crocker, b. Feb. 19, 1829 in Taunton; 
d. Oct. 16, 1874 in Brookline, m. April 12, 1855 Wil- 
liam Russell Paine who was b. Jan. 26, 1823 in 
Worcester and d. Jan. 9, 1877 in Brookline. 


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Children: 

i. Lillie Crocker, b. May 11, 1856; d. Feb. 19, 1905. 

ii. Mary Pickford, b. Dec. 5, 1858; d. April 28, 1859. 

iii. Frances Thomas, b. Sept. 6, 1861. 

iv. Bessie Sturgis, b. Dec. 15, 1862. 

V. Frederick William, b. Feb. 22, 1866; m. Nov. 2, 1910 in 
Providence, R. I., Elizabeth Harriet (Lynch) Pegram. 
No children. 


20. George® Augustus Crocker, b. Sept. 1, 1831; m. Jan. 

26, 1875, Leah Reese, d. Oct. 20, 1906. 

Children: 

i. Jacob Reese, b. Jan. 1, 1876; m. and lives in Cleveland. 

ii. Frances Church, b. Aug. 23, 1877; m. Nov. 22, 1904. 

William Sloane of New York. Child Margaret Douglas, 
b. June 28, 1910. 

iii. George Augustus, Jr., b. Aug. 6, 1880; m. Elizabeth 

Masten of New York. Children: 1. Arthur Hasten, 
b. March 6,. 1909. 2. William Reese, b. June 17, 1919. 

21. William® Baylies Crocker, b. July 22, 1836. A. M., 

Brown, 1856. m. Alice Fellowes in 1866. He d. 
January 1886. 

Children: 

i. Robert Ives, d. in 1915, unmarried. 

ii. William Baylies, Jr., unmarried in Cleveland. 

22. Sally® Crocker, b. Nov. 24, 1832 in Taunton; d. Oct. 

11, 1911. m. June 29, 1853 Edmund Hatch Bennett 
of Taunton. He was born in Manchester, Vt., April 6, 
1824. d. Jan. 2, 1898. A. B., Univ. of Vt., 1848. 
LL.D., in 1872 from same college. Judge of Probate, 
Bristol County, many years. First Mayor of Taunton. 
Dean of Law School of Boston University. 

They had four children: 

i. Caroline, b. Oct. 6, 1854; d. July 25, 1855. 

ii. Edmund Neville, b. May 23, 1856; d. May 28, 1881 while 

at Brown University. 

35. iii. Samuel Crocker, Jr., b. April 19, 1858. See number 35. 
32. iv. Mary Andrews, b. Jan. 18, 1861. 


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23. Samuel® Leonard Crocker, Jr. b. May 25, 1835. A. M 
Brown, 1856. LL.B., 1859, Harvard, d. May 27, 
1904, at Naples, Italy, m. May 25, 1885 in Italy, 
Clementina Cioffi. A widow, she m. Edgar W. 
Smith. 

Children: 

i. Alice Leavenworth, b. 1891; m. Percy G. Smith of 

Montpelier, Vt. Children: 1. Emma Crocker, b. 
1916. 2. Samuel Crocker, b. 1917. 

ii. Samuel Leonard, Jr., b. 1893; m. Ruth Bigelow. 

Children: 1. Nina Bigelow. 2. Ludlle^uth. 


24. Mary® Caroline Crocker, b. May 1826. m. Major 
General Darius Nash Couch of Taunton in 1854. 
He was born July 23, 1822, and graduated from West 
Point in 1846. He was a Lieutenant in the Mexican 
War and Colonel at beginning of the Civil War. Later 
he was General in command of a division in the Army 
of the Potomac — the division later headed by Gen. 
Devens. He had charge of the ceremonies at Gettys- 
burg when Lincoln delivered his address. He, later, 
resigned from the army and lived in Norwalk, Conn. 

Children: 

33. i. Alice Leavenworth, b. July 5, 1855. 

34. ii. Leonard Crocker, b. 1857. 


25. Edward® Isaiah Thomas, b. Nov. 19, 1833 at Cincinnati, 
m. Dec. 31, 1857 in Boston, Henrietta Williams, 
daughter of Henry and Almira Briggs. She was a 
descendent of Roger Williams, d. Jan. 22, 1905 at 
Brookline where her husband d. Dec. 26, 1890. 

Children: 

i. Ada, b. March 14, 1860 at Brookline; m. Oct. 18, 1882, 
Livingston Cushing who was born June 1856. He was of 
Class of 1879, Harvard and had L. L. B. in 1882. He 
died in 1916. They had no children. 

35. ii. Amy Reeder, b. Feb. 4, 1862, at Brookline. 

36. iii. Bertha Williams, b. Jan. 2, 1869, at Brookline. 


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26. William® Reeder Thomas, b. July 18, 1843 at Cincinnati ; 

m. Harriet D. Trumbull of New York. They had 
two children. 

Children : 

i. Katharine Trumbull, b. Nov. 26, 1892; m. Jan. 20, 1916, 

Leslie B. Cooper of Morristown, N. J. Child, b. 1920. 

ii. William Trumbull, b. May 12, 1894, unmarried. 

27. Helen® Thomas, b. Sept. 8, 1832. m. June 5, 1862, 

Charles Mayo Ellis. She d. Dec. 28, 1878. They 
had two children. 

Children : 

i. William Thomas, b. Aug. 14, 1865; d. Oct. 15, 1865. 

ii. Helen, b. May 4, 1870; m. June 5, 1893, Rev. Stopford 

Brooke, later M.P. for Cranleigh. Children: 1. 
Somerset Stopford, b. June 16, 1906. 2. Edith Howe 
Stopford, b. Feb. 14, 1911. 


28. Mary® Merrick Thomas, b. July 31, 1834, who d. in 

Nov. 1915. m. twice, 1st. Sept. 13, 1860, George 
Dwight Guild, Class of 1845, Harvard, who d. 1862. 
2nd. William H. Gorham, M.D., Harvard, 1850, who 
d. in Florence, April, 1895. No children by this 
marriage. 

Child by first marriage. 

37. i. Edith Thomas, b. Sept. 22, 1861. 

29. Agnes® Park Thomas, b. July 19, 1837. m. Richard 

Olney of Oxford, who was born there Sept. 5, 1835. 
He graduated from Brown University in 1856 and 
received the degree of LL. D. 1893, Harvard. He was 
member of Board of Fellows at Brown from 1894 to 
1897. Attorney General of United States from 1893 to 
1895 and Secretary of State from 1895 to 1897. He d. 
April 1917 and his wife d. Jan. 25, 1919. 

Children: 

38. i. Agnes, b. Dec. 3, 1861. 

39. ii. Mary, b. Aug. 15, 1864. 


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30. William^ Thomas, b. Sept. 5, 1853. Class of 1873, Har- 

vard LL.B. 1878. Overseer of Harvard from 1916- 
m. Emma A. Gay of Ashland, Mass. 

Children: 

i. Molly, b. 1875; m. Latham McMullin. Child: Virginia. 

ii. Helen, b. 1878; m. Fred W. Kimble. Child: Barbara. 

iii. Benjamin Franklin, b. 1880; m. Charlotte M. Evans. 

Children: 1. Charlotte, died in infancy. 2. Mary 
Emma. 3. Grace. 

iv. Grace, b. 1887; d. 1890. 

V. Gertrude, b. 1891; m. Roger Boqueraz. Children: 
1. Jeannie. 2. Marie Louise. 

31. ISAIAH^ THOMAS, b. Sept. 24, 1855 in Worcester; d. 

April 10, 1890 in Goffstown, N. H. He entered Har- 
vard with the Class of 1872 but did not graduate 
because of ill health. He married, Dec. 27, 1875, at 
Nashua, N. H., Caroline Ware, daughter of George 
and Elizabeth Lane of Newton. They lived at Goifs- 
town, until his death. His widow married, in 1894, Rev. 
Cyrus W. Heizer of Way land and they moved to 
Ithaca, N. Y. where he died in a few years when she 
returned to Newton. 

Children: 

40. i. Elizabeth, b. April 12, 1877 in Manchester, N. H. 
ii. Marian, b. August 12, 1879; d. Sept. 27, 1880. 


32. Mary® Andrews Bennett, b. Jan. 18, 1861. m. Nov. 
12, 1884 William Merritt Conant, M.D. He was 
born Jan. 5, 1856, at Attleboro, R. I. Class of 1879, 
Harvard and M.D., 1884. Children born in Boston 
except Ira. 

Children: 

i. Ruth, b. Sept. 14, 1885; m. June 10, 1909 Clarence Mason 

Joyce. 

ii. Edmund Bennett, b. Dec. 6, 1886; m. Oct. 11, 1911 

Eleanor Eastman Hawkesworth. Child: Robert H. 
b. Aug. 25, 1913. 

iii. Ira Merritt, b. Aug. 17, 1888 at Bridgewater, m. Nov. 

12, 1914, Grace Madeleine Loud. 


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iv. William Merritt, b. Mar. 23, 1891; m. June 4, 1919. 
Dinsmore Patrick. Child, Mary Wolcott, b. June 9, 
1920. 

V. Edith Waters, b. Aug. 6, 1896. 

33. Alice® Leavenworth Couch, b. July 5, 1855; d. July 

4, 1884. m. June 8, 1881 H. Leroy Randall of New 
Milford, Conn. 

Children : 

i. Alice Neville, b. May 5, 1882; m. June 1, 1907, George 

H. Allen of Buffalo, N. Y. Children: George Randall, 
b. April 26, 1908. 2. Richard LeRoy, b. Nov. 4, 1910. 
Charles Bowker, b. April 10, 1914. 4. David William, 
b. June 9, 1916. 5. Ethel Jane, b. March 22, 1918. 6. 
Maria Caroline, b. June 6, 1920. 

ii. Charles Couch, b. June 25, 1884; d. July, 1885. 

34. Leonard® Crocker Couch, b. 1857. m. in 1882, Cecilia 

May Francis of Taunton. 

Children: 

i. Cecil Thomas, b. 1883. 

ii. Caroline Avis, b. 1885. 

iii. Darius Nash, b. 

35. Amy® Reeder Thomas, b. Feb. 4, 1862. m. Sept. 9, 1885, 

Samuel C., son of Judge Bennett of Taunton. 

Children: 

i. Edmund Neville, b. Aug. 31, 1887. Harvard, 1910. 

ii. Samuel Crocker, Jr., b. Mar. 18, 1890. Harvard, 1912. 

m. April 21, 1917, Elizabeth Jackson. 

iii. Roger Williams, b. Feb. 3, 1892. Harvard, 1913. 

iv. Barbara, b. Dec. 30, 1893; m. June 26, 1920 Louis Cappel 

Zahner. 

V. Rosamond Thomas, b. Nov. 13, 1895. 
vi. Thomas Dacre, b. Dec. 7, 1900. 

36. Bertha® Williams Thomas, b. Jan. 2, 1869. m. Apr. 4, 

1894, Edward M. Beals, he b. March 30, 1868. 

Children: 

i. Madelaine Thomas, b. Aug. 16, 1900. 

ii. Edward Mauren, Jr., b. May 25, 1902. 


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37. Edith^ Thomas Guild, b. Sept. 22, 1861; d. Apr. 16, 

1910. m. June 29, 1888, Prof. Frank W. Taussig of 
Harvard College, Class of 1879. Ph. D. & A. M. 1883, 
and LL.B. in 1886 from Harvard. 

Children : 

i. William Guild, b. May 3, 1889; m. Jan. 5, 1918, Beatrice 

M URRAY of England . She b . Dec . 1 , 1 89 1 . 

ii. Mary Guild, b. May 8, 1892; m. Nov. 10, 1918, Gerard 

Carl Henderen of New York. 

iii. Catherine Crombie, b. Dec. 7, 1896. 

iv. Helen Brooke, b. May 24, 1898. 

38. Agnes^ Olney, b. Dec. 3, 1861. m. Oct. 28, 1890, 

George Richards Minot, Class of 1871, Harvard. He 
b. Mar. 3, 1849; d. 1894. 

Child: 

Francis, b. Nov. 8, 1891; m. Apr. 30, 1914, Isabel 
Quackenbush. Child: Agnes Olney ^ b. July 17, 1916# 

39. Mary^ Olney, b. Aug. 15, 1864. m. Oct. 9, 1886, 

Charles Henry Abbott, D.D.S. Harvard, 1885. He 
b. Sept. 6, 1862 in Berhn. 

Children : 

i. Mary Perkins, b. March 22, 1888 in Berlin. 

ii. Francis Peabody, b. Aug. 15, 1889 in Berlin. Class of 

1914, Harvard. 

iii. Charles Benjamin, b. June 6, 1892 in Berlin. Class of 

1911, Harvard. 

iv. Agnes Ann, b. Aug. 24, 1897 in Boston. 

40. Elizabeth^ Thomas, b. April 12, 1877. m. April 12, 

1895 in Boston at the home of her guardian. Miss Mary 
Thomas, to Frederick Christopher Dumaine. They 
had seven children, all born in Concord, Mass. 

Children: 

i. Mary Thomas, b. April 19, 1897. 

ii. Elizabeth, b. January 3, 1900. 

iii. Harriette Rodman, b. March 12, 1901. 

iv. Frederick, b. Sept. 5, 1902. 

V. Cordelia, b. Feb. 17, 1907. 

vi Christopher, b. April 6, 1910. 
vii. Thomas Park, b. August 21, 1912. 


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INDEX 


Abbott, Agnes A., 29. 

Charles B., 29. 
Charles H., 29. 
Francis P., 29. 

Mary P., 29. 

Allen, Charles B., 28. 

David W., 28. 

Ethel J., 28. 

George H., 28. 

George R., 28. 

Maria C., 28. 

Richard L., 28. 

Armstrong, John, 17, 18. 

Christian, 18. 
Mary, 17. 
Rebecca, 18. 

Babbet, 19. 

Bass, Christian, 16, 18. 

Mary, 16, 18. 

Rebecca, 16, 18. 

Samuel, 16, 18. 

Bangs, Benjamin, 23. 

Cornelia J., 23. 

Bennett, Barbara, 28. 

Caroline, 24. 
Edmund H., 24. 
Edmund N., 24, 28. 
Mary A., 24, 27. 
Robert H., 27. 
Roger W., 28. 
Rosamond, 28. 
Samuel C., 24, 28. 
Thomas D., 28. 

Beals, Edward M., 28. 

Madelaine T., 28. 

Bigelow, Ruth, 25. 

Blackman, E., 16. 

Mary, 16. 

Boqueraz, Jeannie, 27. 

Marie L., 27. 
Roger, 27. 

Briggs, A., 25. 

H. W., 25. 

H., 25. 


Brooke, Edith H., 26. 

Somerset S., 26. 
Stopford W., 26. 

Brownell, Harriet, 20. 

Burroughs, Elizabeth, 16. 

Chioffi, Clementina, 25. 

Con ANT, Edith W., 28. 

Edmund B., 27. 

Ira M., 27. 

Mary W., 28. 

Robert H., 27. 

Ruth, 27. 

William M., 27, 28. 

Cooper, Leslie B., 26. 

Couch, Alice L., 25, 28. 
Caroline A., 28. 

Cecil T., 28. 

Darius N., 25, 28. 
Leonard C., 25, 28. 

Crocker, Alice L., 25. 

Arthur M., 24. 
Elizabeth A., 21. 
Ellen, 22. 

Frances C., 24. 
Frances T., 21, 23. 
George A., 21, 24. 
George G., 22. 

Harriet B., 21. 

Isaiah T., 21. 

Jacob R., 24. 

Louisa M., 21. 

Lucille R., 25. 

Mary A., 21. 

Mary C., 22, 25. 

Nina B., 25. 

Robert I., 24. 

Sally, 22, 24. 

Sally A., 21. 

Samuel L., 21, 22, 25. 
William Allen, 21. 
William Augustus, 21. 
William B., 21, 24. 
William R., 24. 


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Crombie, Calvin, 23. 

Catherine, 23. 

Naomi, 23. 

Cushing, Livinston, 25. 

Deming, a., 20. 

Dill, Anne, 17. 

Joseph, 17. 

Mary, 17, 18. 

Dumaine, Christopher, 29. 
Cordelia, 29. 
Elizabeth, 29. 
Frederick, 29. 
Frederick C., 29. 
Harriet R., 29. 

Mary T., 29. 
Thomas P., 29. 

Eustis, George, 16. 

Ellis, Charles M., 26. 

Helen, 26. 

William T., 26. 

Evans, Charlotte M., 27. 

Fellows, Alice, 24. 

Francis, Cecilia M., 28. 

Fowle, Dorothea W., 18. 

Isaac, 18. 

Mary, 18. 

Rebecca, 16. 

Rebecca T., 18. 
Zachariah, 18. 
Zechariah, 16. 

Gay, Emma A., 27. 

Gibbs, George, 16. 

Gorham, William H., 26. 

Grant, Fidelity, 16. 

Guild, Edith T., 26, 29. 

George D., 26. 

Gutridge, Susanna, 15. 
Hawkesworth, Eleanor E., 27. 
Hbizer, Rev. Cyrus W., 27. 
Henderen, Gerard C., 29. 
Hutchins, James R., 18. 

Jackson, Elizabeth, 28. 

John, 15. 


Joyce, Clarence M., 27. 

Kimble, Barbara, 27. 

Fred W., 27. 

Kirkland, Mrs. Alice, 15. 

Lane, Caroline W., 27. 
Elizabeth, 27. 
George, 27. 

Loud, Grace M., 27. 

MacMillon, Hannah, 16. 

McCulloch, Hugh, 17. 

McKeough, Francis, 20. 

John, 20. 

McMullin, Latham, 27. 

Virginia, 27. 

Masten, Elizabeth, 24. 

Mather, Samuel, 18. 

Valeria, 19. 

Maverick, Rebecca, 15. 

Merrick, Pliny, 19. 

Minot, Agnes O., 29. 
Francis, 29. 
George R., 29. 

Murray, Beatrice, 29. 

Nelson, Mr., 20. 

Newman, Thomas, 16. 

Olney, Agnes, 26, 29. 
Mary, 26, 29. 
Richard, 26. 

Paine, Bessie S., 24. 

Frances T., 24. 
Frederick W., 24. 
Lillie C., 24. 

Mary P., 24. 
William R., 23. 

Park, Mrs. Agnes, 23. 
John, 23. 

Mary A., 23. 

Patrick, Dinsmore, 28. 

Pegram, Elizabeth H., 24. 

Quackenbush, Isabel, 29. 


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Randall, Abraham G., 20. 

Alice N., 28. 

Charles C., 28. 

Clara E., 21. 

H. Leroy, 28. 

Mary T., 21. 

Reeder, Mary A., 22. 

Nathaniel, 22. 

Reese, Leah, 24. 

Roby, Mary, 16. 

Simmons, Elizabeth C., 19, 20. 
Isaiah, 19. 

Isaiah T., 19. 

Levi, 18. 

Mary T., 19, 20. 

Sloane, Margaret D., 24. 

William, 24. 

Smith, Edgar W., 25. 

Emma C., 25. 

Percy G., 25. 

Samuel C., 25. 

Soper, Stephen T., 17. 

Tarleton, Albert G., 20. 

Cornelia F., 20. 
James, 20. 

Jane, 20. 

John, 20. 

Moses, 20. 

Thomas, 20. 

Taussig, Catherine C., 29. 
Frank W., 29. 

Helen B., 29. 

Mary G., 29. 

William G., 29. 

Thomas, Ada, 25. 

Agnes P., 23, 26. 

Alice, 15, 22, 26. 

Amos, 17. 

Amy R., 25, 28. 

Ann, 15. 

Augusta, 23. 

Augusta W., 19, 22. 
Benjamin F., 20, 23, 27. 
Bertha W., 25, 28. 
Catherine C., 23. 
Caroline, 19, 21. 
Charlotte, 27. 

Dorcas, 15. 

Dorothy, 15. 

Edward I., 20, 22, 25. 
Edward W., 20. 



Elias, 16. 

Elizabeth,' 15, 16, 17, 27, 
29. 

Elizabeth A., 22. 

Emma, 27. 

English, 15. 

Evan, 15. 

Frances C., 19, 21. 
George, 15, 16. 

Gertrude, 27. 

Grace, 27. 

Hannah W., 19, 22. 

' Helen, 23, 26, 27. 

Henry C., 22. 

Isaiah, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 
23, 27,. 

James, 15. 

Jane, 15. 

Mrs. Jane, 15. 

Joanna, 15. 

John, 17. 

John P., 23. 

Joshua, 16, 17, 18. 
Katherine T., 26. 

Love, 15. 

Mary, 16, 18, 23, 27, 29. 
Mary A., 18. 

Mary C., 22. 

Mary E., 27. 

Mary L., 22. 

Mary M., 23, 26. 

Mary R., 19. 

Mary W., 28. 

Marian, 27. 

Martha, 15. 

Maverick, 15. 

Molly, 27. 

Moses, 16. 

Mercy, 16. 

Peter, 15, 16, 17. 

Pliny M., 22, 23. 

Rebecca, 15. 

Susanna A., 16, 17. 
WilUam, 16, 18, 20, 23, 27. 
William M., 28. 

William R., 22, 26. 
William T., 26. 

Trumbull, Harriet D., 26. 

Twing, Mary, 17. 

Webber, Katharine, 16. 

Weld, Edward, 19. 

Mary, 19. 

Williams, Samuel, 19. 

Zahner, Louis C., 28. 























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